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He’s right behind her "It’s six years old, Janie Come on"

Janie’s eyebrow is permanently raised as he tries to keep up with her on the way in to school She loses him when he slips and flips on the icy sidewalk

Janie finds Carrie by the doorway to English class "What’s the scoop on the pimpster wheels out there?"

Janie asks her

"I don’t know, chica Hecake I can’t believe he hasn’t been expelled yet"

"Has he actually been arrested?"

"No Shay’s daddy worked it out with the cops Cabel was at all the parties this weekend with her"

"And now he’s driving that"

"It’s a friggin’ 323Ci convertible Stu says seventeen grand at least for one of those, used"

Janie’s blood boils "This is just…just…" The anger swells, and she can’t co her the evil eye

"Unbefuckinglievable?" comes a voice fro Carrie’s eyes groide "Shit" She turns around and there’s Cabel

"S’cuse me, please," he says politely, and squeezes past thene he’s wearing Her stoles "Oops"

Janie rolls her eyes and laughs reluctantly "Yeah"

12:45 p study hall, with e the dreas

First, how did Miss Stubin get Mr McVicker to ask her for help? And second, as she saying to hie his dreas

How the hell can Miss Stubin see in the dreams, when she’s blind? And how can she be there when she’s dead? Okay, that’s four Janie knows There are probably

She knows she needs to work harder

And she’s losing weight Rapidly

She was already thin enough

Now her cheeks look caved in, like her etting up so often in the night, working on her own dreaest places

(She knows they’re from him)

(She wonders if they’re laced with pot)

Cabel has been sitting in his old spot again the past feeeks But he doesn’t sleep He reads

Janie sort of wishes he would fall asleep But she also worries what sheShe opens her lances at Cabel, whose back is to her Froain all weekend With Shay And a lot of drugs Janie sighs Pulls herself out of the threatening o there

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